PAGBABAGO On Monday, the nation will be listening to President Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation address. As the country is undergoing several challenges in several fronts, the people are anxiously awaiting what he would promise in the months ahead. Like most leaders in the past, I...
PAGBABAGO Veteran journalist Vergel Santos’ recent call for citizen action is a timely reminder for all of us who are concerned about the future of the country. At a recent forum hosted by the Policy Center at the University of the Philippines, Vergel who has been a journalist for six...
PAGBABAGO In its 2021 Global Report, International IDEA cites three of the world’s largest democracies – United States, Brazil, and India as “backsliding democracies.” In other words, the study found that there are signs of “authoritarianism” and other indices of backsliding. The...
PAGBABAGO The release of the 2022 results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA-OECD) on creative thinking in 64 participating countries had again created a stir as it showed Filipino students placing second to the last. The concern is understandable as...
PAGBABAGO Since it started four years ago, the Digital News Report (DNR) Survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism had shown significant changes in news media readership and viewership. More Filipinos or 47 percent rated themselves as “interested in the news,” an...
PAGBABAGO June is an important holiday and awareness day month in the country. June 5, World Environment Day, the day to protect Mother Earth, is important to all countries of the world because of the threat of climate change. It is also World Ocean Day, a focus on ocean conservation and...
PAGBABAGO I am primarily an academic even if I did dabble with the brush and acrylic for a period of four years before Covid-19, and which yielded a total of 175 paintings. How I did this was through a disciplined adherence to a weekly schedule at our workshop place, the Sunshine Recreation...
PHINMA Corporation subsidiary Philcement Corp. has signed joint venture (JV) agreement with the Floirendo family’s Anflo Group management and investment company ANFLOCOR to build a P2 billion modern cement manufacturing plant in Davao del Norte. “The earlier signing is a testament...
PAGBABAGO During the recent times, and perhaps because of challenges in the West Philippine Sea, our educational system, and food security, I again started to mull over our strengths and weaknesses and how we can survive or compete with several of our ASEAN neighbors. This continuing...
PAGBABAGO I think that legislative rotation or turnover is a practice that is more common in our country than in neighboring countries. It again happened recently when Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri stepped down a few days ago. “I was not following instructions,...
Funds managed by leading global investment firm KKR is investing a yet undisclosed amount in the Del Rosario’s PHINMA Education Holdings Inc., a leading private higher education group and the education arm of PHINMA Corporation. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), PHINMA said...
Beyond the Game Ex-Azkals face off in rare 7s Football All-Star Game By Brian Yalung It was with the Manila Bulletin when former Philippine Azkal Anton Del Rosario revealed plans about putting up a 7’s football league in the Philippines back in 2019. The league has since grown with Del...
